Watch now: Festival da Cançao Grand Final in Portugal

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts as we’re about to take off on flight: Festival da Cançao 2018 to Guimarães! The 2018 Eurovision host country, Portugal, will be deliberating its Eurovision 2018 act and entry this evening.

Tonight we will find out who will follow into Salvador Sobral‘s footsteps and defend the Portuguese colours at the forthcoming 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon.

RTP, the Portuguese national broadcaster is all set to showcase an extraordinary and exciting show tonight.

How to watch?

You can watch the Grand Final of Festival Da Cançao 2018 from 22:00 CET (21:00 local time) on the following channels:

About the show

The Grand Final of Festival da Cançao will be held at the Pavilhão Multiusos de Guimarães in Guimarães. A total of 14 acts will fight for the right to fly the Portuguese flag at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. The gala will be hosted by Filomena Cautela (Eurovision 2018 host) and Pedro Fernandes.

A special tribute will be paid to former Festival da Cançao participants/winners Simone de Oliveira (Portugal 1965, 1969) and Doce (Portugal 1982) during the interval of the show.

Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 17 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.